deck4ever is right - the Luxeed uses laptop-style switches with a membrane and lifespan will be much shorter than a Deck keyboard. To compare - a similar style keyboard offered by our parent conpany, TG3 Electronics, has a key stroke life cycle rating of about 5 million strokes max. Deck offers 50 million stroke mechanical switches.

TG3 Electronics, has a key stroke life cycle rating of about 5 million strokes max. Deck offers 50 million stroke mechanical switches.

Right - 5M vs 50M is more like it.Let me take back my "hundred" and rephrase:Deck is just ten times better.

For the difference you get when it comes to feel + switch lifespan + LED brightness I still say Deck are 100 times (better but I might be slightly biased ). I don't think there is any way I would ever pay $200 for a keyboard that has laptop style switches.

Oh and as an obsessive compulsive high end keyboard buyer, I received my DAS III Pro this week. Besides the fact that the DAS is not backlit, I still prefer the Deck.

The DAS is lighter and uses the same clicky tactile switches I have in my TVS Gold.

One thing very important for me when I evaluate a keyboard is how the keycaps are sitting on the switches. I really don’t like when I can easily tilt the keys while applying pressure off center of the keys. The keycaps must always stay parallel with the board. The TVS Gold fails that test and unfortunately the DAS too, although not as badly as the TVS.